The Democrats Are Out of Gas...Again.

(By Jim Geraghty, The Campaign Spot) - President Obama’s persistent, ubiquitous “car in the ditch” metaphor is revealing because he presumes that his audience agrees with its central premise, that Democrats are getting the car out of the ditch. But at this point, voters don’t believe that the president’s economic measures or health-care legislation or much else is really making their lives any better.

It would seem there is an opportunity for a creative commercial that extends the metaphor, kind of like this one that used a Tip O’Neill look-alike from 1980:



Who’s going blindly down the road today?